"The Pomeranian" <
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> ronde chumpion wrote:
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> > Hey,
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> > If you are paid a salary, you are professional. PERIOD!
> >
> > Thanks, Ronde Chumpion
> >
> > not a D3 '0'k dreamer
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> I thought most pro's are contractors, not employees.? (Employees get "salaries" or "wages.") A
> contractor can sign a contract for whatever the market will bear or for whatever reason/purpose
> the contractor and contracting firm choose to satisfy, and that doesn't have to be money. Was Jim
> Thorpe a pro or an amateur when he got stripped of his Olympic medal(s)?
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> So if Lance doesn't get a salary, but only gets the terms of the contract, does that make him an
> amateur?
If the employer tells you where, when and how to do the job, you are an employee, not a contractor
in the U.S. This means Lance, Mario and the Clipped Elephant are contractors while most of the
people riding with them are employees...
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Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels...